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Archibald Motley’s “Nightlife" depicts a crowded cabaret in the South Side neighborhood of Bronzeville.
The dynamic composition and heightened colors vividly express the liveliness of the scene, making it one of the Chicago painter's most celebrated paintings. #NowOnView
NEW ACQUISITION—These two striking creatures are the result of a collaboration between sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet and the stoneware manufactory Emile Muller et Cie. To create these imaginary beasts, Frémiet drew on medieval imagery and his lifelong zoological studies. #NowOnView
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Frédéric Bazille was in his mid-20s when he executed this startlingly direct self-portrait.
He painted it while sharing an apartment with Claude Monet. Given his recent decision to abandon a medical career in favor of art, it can be seen as a professional manifesto.
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August Macke painted "Geraniums before Blue Mountain" in 1910. The observation of nature was important to him, as was the study of art and creating from his own individual inner experience.
#NowOnView “Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909-1914”
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#NowOnView | “Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele: 1918 Centenary” |This exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of two of the greatest Austrian artists of the 20th c. Stop by before it comes to an end on January 21.
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Egon Schiele, “Friendship,” 1913. Private Collection.
Leonora Carrington’s imaginative portrait of her friend—self-taught artist Juan Soriano—was one of the first paintings in which she combined Surrealist-inspired dreamscapes with the history and ancient practices of Mexico, her adopted homeland—#NowOnView in Modern Art.
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Charles M. Russell, the self-proclaimed cowboy artist, was a prolific artist of Indian subjects. This painting "Indian Canoe Party" demonstrates his preferred style for depicting Native subjects in a romanticized manner. #NowOnView
Toward the end of his life, Francisco de Goya created some of his most mysterious imagery, considering themes of superstition and the fantastical nature of dreams and nightmares.
See monstrous demons, winged creatures, demonic cats, and other frightful beasts by Goya. #NowOnView
Born #OnThisDay in 1861—Frederic Remington helped shape and reinforce myths of the Old West at a time when the open range was disappearing.
Explore his mythical, romantic evocations of cowboys, American Indians, and soldiers—with six works #NowOnView in American Art.
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“The Key” by Jackson Pollock marks a crucial moment in his evolution as an artist. Created on the floor and worked on directly from all sides, this quasi-Surrealist painting prefigured Pollock’s celebrated drip paintings, which debuted the following year. #NowOnView
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Born #OnThisDay—Théodore Géricault painted this macabre image directly from life. A frequent visitor to morgues, he often brought home cadavers for his studies. The severed head in this work is one that Géricault is said to have kept in his house for a fortnight. #NowOnView
Edvard Munch painted "The Girl by the Window" the same year as his most famous work, "The Scream." The loosely applied, somber brown tones mingle with violets and blues in this unsettling and enigmatic scene, evoking a feeling of melancholy and anticipation. #NowOnView
In Édouard Manet’s "Steamboat Leaving Boulogne," a side-wheel packet steamer heads up the channel, leaving slower sailing boats in its wake.
See this boldly brushed and almost calligraphic canvas among ten works by Manet #NowOnView.
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Born #OnThisDay in 1880—The first American painter to experiment with pure abstraction, Arthur Dove dispensed with representational subjects, creating patterns, rhythms, and color harmonies in order to communicate through form and color alone.
See five works #NowOnView.